[bwb]

I think the why changes the approach...

I think my takeaway from the last 10 years, is that a lot of the info on websites that was by real people has disappeared and you have a lot of spammy blog and heavily commercial approaches. And, most of the real info has gone into facebook groups, quora, reddit comments, slack, twitter, and so on.

The problem is those are all closed-door eco-systems in a lot of ways, and the knowledge is hard to differentiate from the temporal messaging.

I think if I was going to approach this I would build software that users run, or browser add ons that lets user tag and save information in some type of format, and then that contributes to a knowledge search information.

For example, I am a member of several FB groups focused around specific expat groups for where I live. There are great pieces of wisdom and hard to find info in there. I'd love to with a chrome extension say save this and here is a little context (or if it could know that is great from formats).

Then try to figure out how to make that public and searchable.

[ai_ia]

>I think if I was going to approach this I would build software that users run, or browser add ons that lets user tag and save information in some type of format, and then that contributes to a knowledge search information.

Something like delicious or pinboard, I suppose.

I agree. A social bookmarking website would be pretty interesting if done right.

[bwb]

Well personal + fed into a centralized system, a human knowledge search engine which I think was some of the magic of the early internet but now is buried in FB groups and the other locations i mentioned.

[K0SM0S]

Cue some deep learning over this centralized dataset... we might just see 'profiles' emerge that allow the system to build very ad hoc results depending on who searches what.

E.g. one of the strengths of Google (which I've used for a decade without ever deleting history) is to give me very hands-on blogs and procedures whenever I search for some tech — I don't even have to add "guide" or "tutorial" or "hands-on" or "how to", whenever I use my dev account Google just knows what I'm after — “this guy MAKES, he don't care for fluff”. I've compared searches with friends (non-tech non-nerds), they get the usual wiki / reddit / commercial stuff, with my meaty top 10 stuff often on page 2-3-4 (if even that!) for them.

This is the kind of smarts I don't know how to replicate without ML. This is also where Spotify who has had years to figure it out remains extremely generic (frankly bad at deep cuts, which at a basic level used to be one of their initial strengths).

[siquick]

Fully agreed with this. In the early to mid 00's I was a heavy user of electronic music forums, everyday I was learning about new artists/releases/labels and there were hundreds of active users discussing new music on most of the boards.

Last night I spent a good hour or so trying to find something similar and just couldn't find anything. The closest thing now is Reddit but the quality of discussion just isn't what it was during those golden phpbb forum days. It's seems like it's either Facebook groups or nothing.